IPI condemns jail terms for Özgür Gündem editors and journalists
Seven editors and journalists receive heavy sentences
Protestors hold the copy of Ozgur Gundem Newspaper, protesting daily's then-temporary closed down in Istanbul, Turkey, 17 August 2016. EPA / SEDAT SUNA
On May 21, seven editors and columnists for the now-shuttered pro-Kurdish newspaper Özgür Gündem were sentenced to jail terms varying from three years, nine months to 15 months on charges of “spreading terrorist propaganda”.
The International Press Institute (IPI) is appalled at the verdict and condemns the mass targeting of Özgür Gündem journalists and editors-in-chief for articles published in the newspaper.
